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Hsu 2013
Platelet-rich Plasma in
Orthopaedic Applications:
Evidence-based
Recommendations for Treatment
Abstract
Wellington K. Hsu, MD Autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapies have seen a
Allan Mishra, MD dramatic increase in breadth and frequency of use for orthopaedic
conditions in the past 5 years. Rich in many growth factors that
Scott R. Rodeo, MD
have important implications in healing, PRP can potentially
Freddie Fu, MD
regenerate tissue via multiple mechanisms. Proposed clinical and
Michael A. Terry, MD surgical applications include spinal fusion, chondropathy, knee
Pietro Randelli, MD osteoarthritis, tendinopathy, acute and chronic soft-tissue injuries,
S. Terry Canale, MD enhancement of healing after ligament reconstruction, and muscle
strains. However, for many conditions, there is limited reliable
Frank B. Kelly, MD
clinical evidence to guide the use of PRP. Furthermore,
classification systems and identification of differences among
products are needed to understand the implications of variability.
From the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (Dr. Hsu and
Dr. Terry), the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA (Dr. Mishra), the Department of
Orthopaedic Surgery and the Research Department, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY (Dr. Rodeo), the Department of
Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (Dr. Fu), the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Milan,
Milan, Italy (Dr. Randelli), the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Tennessee–Campbell Clinic, Memphis, TN
(Dr. Canale), and Forsyth Street Orthopaedics, Macon, GA (Dr. Kelly).
Dr. Hsu or an immediate family member is a member of a speakers’ bureau or has made paid presentations on behalf of Graftys,
Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Pioneer Surgical, Stryker, Terumo Medical, and Zimmer; has received research or institutional support
from Baxter, Medtronic Sofamor Danek, and Pioneer Surgical; and serves as a board member, owner, officer, or committee member
of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), the Lumbar Spine Research Society, and the North American Spine
Society. Dr. Mishra or an immediate family member has received royalties from Biomet and ThermoGenesis, is an employee of
BioParadox, and has stock or stock options held in BioParadox and ThermoGenesis. Dr. Rodeo or an immediate family member
serves as a paid consultant to Smith & Nephew and has stock or stock options held in Cayenne Medical. Dr. Fu or an immediate
family member has received royalties from ArthroCare; is an employee of and has stock or stock options held in Stryker; and serves
as a board member, owner, officer, or committee member of the AAOS, the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, the
Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF), and the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery, and
Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. Dr. Terry or an immediate family member has received royalties from, serves as a paid consultant to,
has received research or institutional support from, and has received nonincome support (such as equipment or services),
commercially derived honoraria, or other non-research–related funding (such as paid travel) from Smith & Nephew. Dr. Randelli or an
immediate family member is a member of a speakers’ bureau or has made paid presentations on behalf of and has received
research or institutional support from Biomet; serves as a paid consultant to DePuy; and serves as a board member, owner, officer,
or committee member of the European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery & Arthroscopy. Dr. Canale or an immediate
family member serves as a board member, owner, officer, or committee member of the AAOS, Bioworks, the Campbell Foundation,
and OREF. Dr. Kelly or an immediate family member serves as a board member, owner, officer, or committee member of OREF and
the Twentieth Century Orthopaedic Association.
Table 1
Common Platelet-rich Plasma Formulations
System Type Whole Blood Volume (mL) Centrifuge Time (min)
P-LRP = platelet-leukocyte-rich plasma, P-PRF = pure platelet-rich fibrin, P-PRP = pure platelet-rich plasma
went a variety of procedures (ankle, such as TGF-β1, thrombospondin-1, acid (P < 0.0001). Eighty-seven per-
hindfoot, midfoot, and forefoot sur- and insulin-like growth factor.51 cent of patients enrolled in the PRP
gery), and the type of bone graft Consequently, its use has been pro- group obtained good results, which
used (ie, allograft, autograft) varied posed in patients with symptomatic led these authors to conclude that
based on surgeon choice. cartilage defects or osteochondral le- PRP should be considered as a first-
In a level III prospective study, Tsai sions. line treatment of symptomatic osteo-
et al25 reported lumbar posterolateral In a level I study in which 78 pa- chondral lesions of the talus. Al-
spine fusion rates with local bone tients with bilateral knee osteoarthri- though preliminary evidence exists,
graft in 67 consecutive patients, 34 tis were randomized to receive a sin- further study is required before con-
of whom were treated with addi- gle WBC-filtered PRP injection, two clusions can be made regarding the
tional platelet glue. At 2-year follow- PRP injections 3 weeks apart, or a efficacy of PRP in the management
up, there was no difference in non- single saline injection, both PRP of osteochondral lesions and knee
union rate (15%, platelet glue; 10%, groups were found to have signifi- osteoarthritis.
control group) as determined on cantly better outcomes than the con-
flexion-extension radiographs and trol group 6 months after treatment.2
fine-cut CT scans. Similarly, in a ret- In a separate level I randomized con- Chronic Tendinopathy
rospective cohort study of 76 consec- trolled trial (RCT) in 120 patients,
utive patients who underwent pos- Cerza et al3 reported significantly Elbow epicondylitis, which is charac-
terolateral lumbar fusion, the better clinical outcomes up to 24 terized by failure of the normal ten-
nonunion rates at clinical follow-up weeks after a local injection of PRP don repair mechanism, is a common
of ≥24 months did not differ signifi- compared with injection of hy- malady that leads to chronic pain
cantly between iliac crest bone graft aluronic acid (P < 0.001). Con- and decreased function in activities
plus platelet-gel preparation com- versely, in an RCT of 109 patients, of daily living. Although treatment
pared with autologous bone graft Filardo et al4 demonstrated that al- recommendations range from brac-
alone (25% and 17%, respectively; P though intra-articular PRP injections ing, physiotherapy, and steroid injec-
= 0.18).26 Weiner and Walker27 dem- can offer significant clinical improve- tions to arthroscopic or open dé-
onstrated a significantly lower fusion ment up to 1 year after treatment, bridement, some investigators have
rate with the use of autologous these results were not better com- indicated that the local delivery of
growth factors from PRP and au- pared with hyaluronic acid injec- humoral mediators may enhance ten-
tograft in single-level posterolateral tions. Furthermore, the authors of a don healing and lead to improved
lumbar fusion compared with iliac Clinical Practice Guideline spon- clinical outcomes.
crest bone graft alone (62% and sored by the American Academy of In a controlled trial comparing lo-
91%, respectively; P < 0.05). The ad- Orthopaedic Surgeons were “unable cal injection of either PRP formula-
dition of PRP to autograft for pos- to recommend for or against growth tion containing WBCs or bupiva-
terolateral and interbody spine fu- factor injections and/or platelet rich caine in 20 patients with chronic
sion does not appear to confer any plasma for patients with symptom- elbow epicondylar tendinosis,
19
benefit in fusion rates and, in fact, it atic OA of the knee.”52 Mishra and Pavelko demonstrated
may be detrimental. One case-control clinical study has significant improvement in clinical
Currently, limited clinical evidence been published to date on the man- outcomes in visual analog scale
exists demonstrating any beneficial agement of cartilage defects with (VAS) and Mayo elbow scores at 8
effects from the use of PRP in bone PRP.18 In this level II study, 32 pa- weeks after treatment with PRP (P =
healing applications. The available tients with symptomatic osteochon- 0.001 and P = 0.008, respectively).
evidence indicates that PRP is not ef- dral lesions of the talus classified on Patients treated with PRP had a 93%
ficacious either alone or as an ad- CT scan using the Ferkel system reduction in pain compared with
junct to local bone graft in these ap- were randomized to receive intra- baseline at an average follow-up of
plications. articular injections of either hy- 25.6 months (P < 0.0001). Thanasas
aluronic acid or PRP. At 28-week et al5 compared clinical outcomes in
follow-up, patients who received 28 patients with the same condition
Cartilage Healing PRP demonstrated significantly who were randomized to local injec-
greater improvements in pain, stiff- tion of either autologous whole
PRP contains factors that have been ness, and function scores compared blood or PRP in a level I study. Al-
shown to be critical in joint repair, with those treated with hyaluronic though VAS score improvements
were reported at every follow-up in- tients who received PRP demon- with excellent long-term results and
terval up to 6 months in the PRP strated a greater activity level; how- patient satisfaction. Maturation of
group, the only statistically signifi- ever, all other outcome measures, the tendon graft is necessary for opti-
cant difference was seen at the including VAS and pain level evalua- mal biomechanical strength and re-
6-week time point. tion, did not differ significantly from turn to activity. Graft remodeling
Using the same methodology as did the control group. Gosens et al10 may be accelerated by the actions of
Mishra and Pavelko,19 a different demonstrated that, for patients pre- PDGF, TGF-β1, and insulin-like
group of researchers compared local viously treated with cortisone, growth factor–1.29 The intra-
injection of PRP with corticosteroid ethoxysclerol, and/or surgery for pa- articular biologic environment pre-
for lateral epicondylitis in a level I tellar tendinopathy, PRP did not con- sents challenges to tissue healing that
study of 100 patients; they published fer as much improvement in VAS may lead to suboptimal results. For
one article reporting on the 1-year scores as it did in patients who had example, this anatomic area is not
follow-up results7 and a second arti- had no prior intervention. only poorly vascularized but also
cle on the 2-year follow-up results.6 Although the cost-effectiveness of produces synovial fluid containing
Significantly greater reduction in treatment is unclear, the clinical evi- proteases that prevent fibrin clot for-
VAS scores was achieved with PRP dence suggests that local injection of mation, which is normally required
measured at each time point up to 24 PRP containing WBCs may be bene- for initial wound healing.55 Further-
months after injection (P < 0.0001). ficial to patients with chronic elbow more, this contained milieu may not
Comparison of outcomes at 1- and epicondylitis refractory to standard deliver important growth factors for
2-year follow-up demonstrated that nonsurgical treatment. However, the healing.
clinical scores in the corticosteroid results of PRP treatment of other In vitro studies have demonstrated
group steadily declined, whereas chronic tendinopathies are not as the ability of PRP to improve ACL
those of the PRP group were main- clear. cell viability and function.43 Thus,
tained.6 These studies suggest that treatments have been proposed to in-
PRP formulations containing WBCs crease both histologic metrics in re-
improve patient outcomes compared Surgical Repair of Acute pair and remodeling at the midsub-
with local injection of anesthetic, Soft-tissue Injuries stance of the reconstructed ACL as
whole blood, or corticosteroid. well as within the patellar tendon
The results have not been as prom- Because of the rich source of growth harvest site in patients treated with
ising for other tendinopathies. In a factors in PRP, it has been suggested bone–patellar tendon–bone au-
level I RCT comparing local injec- that administering PRP in the setting 56
tografts. Early administration of
tion of PRP to saline for Achilles ten- of acute soft-tissue injuries could PRP during the inflammatory pro-
dinopathy in conjunction with eccen- provide enhanced healing, thus facil- cess may lead to an accelerated heal-
tric exercises, de Vos et al8 reported itating an early return to sports.20,29 ing cascade that is shorter than the
no difference in the improvement of Tendon healing is typically character- typical 1-year period expected for
clinical outcome up to a 24-week ized by an initial inflammatory re- full graft maturation.56
follow-up. In a follow-up study, sponse that is associated with the in- Radice et al29 conducted a prospec-
members of the same research group flux of factors such as PDGF and tive single-blind study of 50 patients
randomized 54 patients diagnosed TGF-β (within 2 days), resulting in who were treated with either ACL
with chronic Achilles tendinopathy angiogenesis (2 to 3 days), and colla- autograft alone or ACL autograft
to blinded injections containing ei- gen synthesis (3 to 5 days).53 Because with application of PRP gel at the
ther PRP or saline in addition to a PRP contains these critical growth time of surgery. At 1-year follow-up,
training program.9 Although patients factors that can aid in the inflamma- it was found that application of PRP
in both groups had improved clinical tory response, its utility may be gel resulted in significantly faster bi-
outcomes 1 year after injection, there greatest when administered early in ologic maturation than did autograft
was no significant difference in bene- the healing period.54 alone as measured on MRI (177 and
fit. In a prospective level III study, Fi- 369 days, respectively; P < 0.001)
lardo et al28 studied the utility of Anterior Cruciate Ligament (Figure 2). Similarly, in an RCT with
PRP injection for refractory jumper’s Reconstruction 108 patients, Orrego et al21 demon-
knee in 31 patients who were treated Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) re- strated that the addition of platelet
with either local injection of PRP or construction has traditionally been concentrate to a semitendinosus-
exercise. At 6-month follow-up, pa- considered a successful procedure gracilis graft and to the femoral tun-
pair. In a case-control study involv- adequate cost-benefit analysis. PRP suggests that success varies depend-
ing 12 athletes who had acute therapy is not covered by many in- ing on the preparation method and
Achilles tendon repair, patients who surance plans in the United States, composition, medical condition of
were injected with a preparation rich and until appropriate data are avail- the patient, anatomic location, and
in growth factors around the tendon able, this situation may not change. tissue type. In response to a growing
fibers demonstrated significantly In a study involving diabetic wound interest among both patients and sur-
faster recovery of range of motion (P ulcers, the cost of PRP treatment in geons in the use of PRP, recent stud-
= 0.025) and time to running (P = 2006 was estimated to be $450 per ies have reported outcomes in a vari-
0.042).30 However, a level II study of treatment, for a monthly cost of ety of conditions. Further critical
30 patients who underwent Achilles $3,600 for an uncomplicated ulcer.63 review and rigorous clinical studies
tendon repair with or without PRP Dougherty63 concluded that PRP gel
are required to formulate a cost-
administration demonstrated no sig- was more cost-effective than wet-to-
effective, efficacious algorithm for
nificant difference between the two dry saline dressings in managing
the use of PRP in patients with or-
groups in heel raise index or elastic- nonhealing diabetic foot ulcers over
thopaedic conditions.
ity modulus at 1-year follow-up.24 In a 5-year period.
fact, the Achilles Tendon Total Rup- In the Netherlands, PRP treatment
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